Exact Match:
- malingering
- evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated; "they developed a test to detect malingering"
Synonyms:
Related Words:
- elusive
collapse - skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline
- difficult to describe; "a haunting elusive odor"
- be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind; "his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change"; "a subtle difference"; "that elusive thing the soul" related words >
- bickering,
- boggling,
- captiousness,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- clock-watching,
- ducking,
- equivocation,
- evasion,
- fencing,
- goofing off,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- logic-chopping,
- malingering,
- nit-picking,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- pettifoggery,
- prevarication,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- shifting,
- shirking,
- shuffle,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- skulking,
- slacking,
- soldiering,
- subterfuge,
- suppressio veri,
- tax dodging,
- tax evasion,
- tergiversation,
- trichoschistism,
- truancy,
- weasel words,
- welshing
- truancy
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- failure to attend (especially school) related words >
- AWOL,
- French leave,
- abscondence,
- absence,
- absence without leave,
- absentation,
- absenteeism,
- absenting,
- clock-watching,
- cut,
- day off,
- default,
- departure,
- disappearance,
- dodging,
- ducking,
- escape,
- excused absence,
- fleeing,
- furlough,
- goofing off,
- holiday,
- hooky,
- leave,
- leave of absence,
- leaving,
- malingering,
- nonappearance,
- nonattendance,
- running away,
- sabbatical leave,
- shirking,
- sick leave,
- skulking,
- slacking,
- soldiering,
- tax dodging,
- tax evasion,
- truantism,
- unexcused absence,
- vacation,
- welshing
- cagey
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- characterized by great cautious and wariness; "a cagey avoidance of a definite answer"; "chary of the risks involved"; "a chary investor"
- showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound" related words >
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- canny,
- chary,
- clever,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- distrustful,
- elusive,
- elusory,
- evasive,
- feline,
- foxy,
- guileful,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- leery,
- malingering,
- mistrustful,
- pawky,
- politic,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shirking,
- shrewd,
- shy,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- suspecting,
- suspicious,
- tactical,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- truant
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- one who is absent from school without permission
- absent without permission; "truant schoolboys"; "the soldier was AWOL for almost a week" related words >
- AWOL,
- Bowery bum,
- absent,
- absent without leave,
- absentee,
- beachcomber,
- beggar,
- beggarly fellow,
- blighter,
- budmash,
- bum,
- bummer,
- caitiff,
- clock watcher,
- delinquent,
- derelict,
- devil,
- dodger,
- drifter,
- drunkard,
- eye-servant,
- goldbrick,
- goldbricker,
- good-for-naught,
- good-for-nothing,
- hobo,
- human wreck,
- idler,
- loafer,
- loafing,
- lowlife,
- malingerer,
- malingering,
- mauvais sujet,
- mean wretch,
- mucker,
- no-good,
- old soldier,
- pauvre diable,
- pilgarlic,
- poor creature,
- poor devil,
- runaway,
- sad case,
- sad sack,
- shirk,
- shirker,
- shirking,
- skid-row bum,
- skulk,
- skulker,
- slacker,
- soldier,
- stiff,
- sundowner,
- swagman,
- tax dodger,
- tramp,
- vag,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- vaurien,
- wastrel,
- welsher,
- worthless fellow,
- wretch
- evasive
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- deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement"
- avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action" related words >
- ambiguous,
- amoral,
- bickering,
- cagey,
- captious,
- casuistic,
- caviling,
- choplogic,
- close,
- closemouthed,
- conscienceless,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- devious,
- discreet,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- dissembling,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- elusive,
- elusory,
- equivocal,
- equivocating,
- equivocatory,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- fraudulent,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- intangible,
- logic-chopping,
- malingering,
- misleading,
- nit-picking,
- not kosher,
- oblique,
- paltering,
- petty,
- picayune,
- prevaricating,
- pussyfooting,
- questionable,
- quibbling,
- rotten,
- secret,
- secretive,
- shady,
- shameless,
- shifty,
- shirking,
- shuffling,
- sinister,
- sliding,
- slippery,
- sly,
- sophistical,
- suspicious,
- tergiversant,
- tergiversating,
- trichoschistic,
- tricky,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- unclear,
- uncommunicative,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- vague,
- weasel-worded,
- without remorse,
- without shame
- idleness
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- having no employment related words >
- a wise passiveness,
- big deal,
- cautiousness,
- circumspection,
- contemplation,
- contemplative life,
- creeping,
- dawdling,
- deliberateness,
- deliberation,
- do-nothing policy,
- do-nothingism,
- do-nothingness,
- dolce far niente,
- dormancy,
- drawl,
- emptiness,
- flimsiness,
- foolishness,
- foot-dragging,
- frivolity,
- frivolousness,
- futility,
- idle hands,
- idle hours,
- immobility,
- inaction,
- inactivity,
- inanity,
- indolence,
- inertia,
- inertness,
- inoccupation,
- laissez-aller,
- laissez-faire,
- laissez-faireism,
- languor,
- lassitude,
- laze,
- laziness,
- lazing,
- leisureliness,
- lentitude,
- lentor,
- lethargy,
- levity,
- lightness,
- loafing,
- lollygagging,
- malingering,
- meditation,
- neutralism,
- neutrality,
- neutralness,
- noninvolvement,
- nonparticipation,
- nonresistance,
- nonviolence,
- nonviolent resistance,
- nugacity,
- otiosity,
- pacifism,
- paralysis,
- passive resistance,
- passive self-annihilation,
- passiveness,
- passivism,
- passivity,
- pokiness,
- policy,
- procrastination,
- quiescence,
- quietism,
- reluctance,
- shallowness,
- shiftlessness,
- shilly-shallying,
- shirking,
- silliness,
- slackness,
- slenderness,
- slightness,
- sloth,
- slothfulness,
- slouch,
- slowness,
- sluggardy,
- sluggishness,
- stagnancy,
- stagnation,
- standpattism,
- stasis,
- superficiality,
- tentativeness,
- torpor,
- triflingness,
- triteness,
- triviality,
- trivialness,
- unemployment,
- vacuity,
- vanity,
- vapidity,
- vegetation,
- vita contemplativa,
- waiting game,
- watching and waiting
- slippery
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- causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide; "slippery sidewalks"; "a slippery bar of soap"; "the streets are still slippy from the rain"
- not to be trusted; "how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is"- James Agee related words >
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- adipose,
- ambidextrous,
- amoral,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- blubbery,
- buttery,
- butyraceous,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- changeable,
- chiseling,
- chrismal,
- chrismatory,
- clever,
- collusive,
- conscienceless,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- critical,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- cute,
- dangerous,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- delicate,
- designing,
- desultory,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- disloyal,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- elusive,
- elusory,
- evasive,
- faithless,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- fat,
- fatty,
- feline,
- felonious,
- finagling,
- fishy,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- glassy,
- greased,
- greasy,
- guileful,
- hazardous,
- icy,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- inconstant,
- indirect,
- infirm,
- ingenious,
- insecure,
- insidious,
- insubstantial,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- lardaceous,
- lardy,
- lubric,
- lubricated,
- lubricious,
- malingering,
- mucoid,
- not kosher,
- oiled,
- oily,
- oleaginous,
- oleic,
- on slippery ground,
- on thin ice,
- pawky,
- perfidious,
- perilous,
- politic,
- precarious,
- provisional,
- questionable,
- ready,
- reptilian,
- resourceful,
- rich,
- risky,
- rotten,
- scheming,
- sebaceous,
- serpentine,
- shady,
- shaky,
- shameless,
- sharp,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shirking,
- shrewd,
- sinister,
- sleek,
- slick,
- sliddery,
- slimy,
- slipper,
- slippy,
- slithery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- soaped,
- soapy,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- suety,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- suspicious,
- tactical,
- tallowy,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- ticklish,
- touch-and-go,
- touchy,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncertain,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- unctuous,
- undependable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unfaithworthy,
- unguent,
- unguentary,
- unguentous,
- unprincipled,
- unreliable,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unstraightforward,
- unsubstantial,
- unsure,
- untrustworthy,
- variable,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily,
- without remorse,
- without shame
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- adrift,
- afloat,
- alternating,
- ambidextrous,
- amoral,
- amorphous,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- bent,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- changeful,
- chiseling,
- clandestine,
- clever,
- close,
- closemouthed,
- collusive,
- conniving,
- conscienceless,
- conspiratorial,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- covert,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- cute,
- dangerous,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- deceiving,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- desultory,
- deviable,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- discreet,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- dizzy,
- dodging,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- eccentric,
- elusive,
- elusory,
- equivocating,
- erratic,
- evasive,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- fast and loose,
- feline,
- felonious,
- fickle,
- finagling,
- fishy,
- fitful,
- flickering,
- flighty,
- flitting,
- fluctuating,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- freakish,
- furtive,
- giddy,
- guileful,
- hazardous,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- hugger-mugger,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconsistent,
- inconstant,
- indecisive,
- indirect,
- infirm,
- ingenious,
- insecure,
- insidious,
- insubstantial,
- inventive,
- irregular,
- irresolute,
- irresponsible,
- knavish,
- knowing,
- lying,
- malingering,
- mazy,
- mendacious,
- mercurial,
- moody,
- not kosher,
- pawky,
- perfidious,
- perilous,
- politic,
- precarious,
- privy,
- provisional,
- questionable,
- quiet,
- rambling,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- restless,
- risky,
- roguish,
- rotten,
- roving,
- scatterbrained,
- scheming,
- secret,
- secretive,
- serpentine,
- shady,
- shaky,
- shameless,
- shapeless,
- sharp,
- shifting,
- shirking,
- shrewd,
- shuffling,
- sinister,
- skulking,
- slick,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- spasmodic,
- spineless,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- suspicious,
- tactical,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- ticklish,
- traitorous,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- unaccountable,
- uncertain,
- uncommunicative,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- uncontrolled,
- undependable,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- undisciplined,
- unethical,
- unfaithworthy,
- unfixed,
- unobtrusive,
- unpredictable,
- unprincipled,
- unreliable,
- unrestrained,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unsettled,
- unsolid,
- unsound,
- unstable,
- unstable as water,
- unstaid,
- unsteadfast,
- unsteady,
- unstraightforward,
- unsubstantial,
- unsure,
- untrustworthy,
- untruthful,
- vacillating,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- vicissitudinary,
- vicissitudinous,
- volatile,
- vulpine,
- wandering,
- wanton,
- wary,
- wavering,
- wavery,
- wavy,
- wayward,
- whimsical,
- wily,
- wishy-washy,
- without remorse,
- without shame
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